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Sen. Young Weighs GOP Health Plan Freshman Republican Studies Senate Plan, Says CBO Score Will Be Part of His Calculation As Obamacare Implodes by BRIAN A V22, N40 Tuesday, June 27, 2017 Sen. Young weighs GOP health plan Freshman Republican studies Senate plan, says CBO score will be part of his calculation as Obamacare implodes By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – Last Friday morning, Howey Politics Indiana listened to U.S. Sen. Todd Young speak before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, calling for an Authoriza- tion of Use of Military Force that can be used against al Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS. “We can’t duck our war-making responsibilities anymore. Congress cannot continue to delegate war powers to the president.” But as he spoke those words, a domestic May 4. At this writing, at least five senators say they are war brewed on Capitol Hill. Senate Republicans unveiled against the “discussion draft” and while Young said that its version of the Obamacare replace/repeal and Major- the Senate must act, he says he’s in the undecided col- ity Leader Mitch McConnell will seek a vote this week. umn. The Senate plan is built on similar contours of the House Continued on page 3 American Health Care Act that passed by a single vote on Team Holcomb data sets By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – At the 2014 Indiana Republican Convention in Fort Wayne, as Eric Holcomb looked on from the dias behind him, Republican National Committee Chair- man Reince Priebus recalled a conversation he had with a donor who said after the Mitt “I don’t think being a sitting Romney presidential debacle in 2012, “If you’re not going to be member of Congress is the best big and bold, then don’t waste advantage. The public is very my time.” Priebus explained, “I’ve dissatisfied with Congress.” never stopped thinking about that conversation. We can’t - State Sen. Mike Delph, telling simply be a mid-term party. We HPI he sees a ‘conservative have to be a presidential party. We have to grow. We have to lane’ in the U.S. Senate race. get 60 million people to come to He will decide by fall. the polls in 2016 so we cannot Page 2 just save our party, we’re going to be tional Twitter and rally campaign, with big and bold to save this country.” many convinced that he could never And Priebus vowed to spend compete with the Obama era data set $35 million for a data upgrade. “You the Democrats thought they had. But have to have a national party that’s the foundation that Chairman Prie- competent in digital and data, be- bus put in motion gave the GOP data cause we are only ones who can hand sets to pull away in Florida and win it off to the federal candidate. So you Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylva- have to have a national party that nia, creating the biggest presidential understands that you have to get your upset in history. The conventional Howey Politics Indiana act together slicing and dicing the wisdom was that the data advantage WWHowey Media, LLC 405 electorate and know what the data is forged by Barack Obama in 2008 and Massachusetts Ave., Suite and have the messag- 300 Indianapolis, IN 46204 es catered to the right people, depending on www.howeypolitics.com who you’re communi- cating to. Consumer Brian A. Howey, Publisher data sets. What does Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington the census data say? Jack E. Howey, Editor Who’s turning in an ab- sentee ballot in every Mary Lou Howey, Editor day? Who’s requested Mark Curry, photography a ballot but didn’t turn it in so I can knock on Subscriptions their door? These are the things a competent HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 party does.” HPI Weekly, $350 Priebus, of Ray Volpe, Account Manager course, is now chief of 317.602.3620 staff to President Don- email: [email protected] ald Trump, who won 62.98 million votes, At the 2014 Indiana Republican Convention in Fort Wayne, compared to 65.85 mil- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus lays out his GOP data plans Contact HPI lion for Hillary Clinton. that helped fuel the 2016 upset by President Trump, as Eric [email protected] But the targeted RNC Holcomb listened. (HPI Photos by Brian A. Howey) data allowed Trump Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 to pick off the “blue wall” states of perfected in 2012 would give Hillary Washington: 202.256.5822 Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Clinton the advantage in 2016. But Business Office: 317.602.3620 Holcomb is now Gov. Priebus and the RNC outmanuvered Holcomb, another upset beneficiary their counterparts. © 2017, Howey Politics of the RNC data, and tonight at the Hupfer told HPI on Mon- Lucas Estate in Carmel, he will kick day that “Team Holcomb” will use Indiana. All rights reserved. off “Team Holcomb” before a crowd of the RNC’s state-of-the-art data and Photocopying, Internet forward- donors and activists approaching 500. micro target voters in 2018, 2019 and ing, faxing or reproducing in It will be a joint fundraising strategy 2020. “Our IT and data is flourishing,” any form, whole or part, is a between his reelection campaign and Hupfer explained. “We’ve got a lot of violation of federal law without the Indiana Republican Party. It will the back office stuff on IT done. It’s split funds 70/30% between his cam- enhanced that capability. And we’re permission from the publisher. paign and the state party. “It allows working hand in hand with the RNC us to streamline a lot of operations,” which is proving to have just a vastly said Republican Chairman Kyle Hupfer. superior data system than anyone else “We’re going to be doing many events in the country, including the DNC.” jointly from a fundraising perspective; Hupfer points to last week’s take advantage of synergy between special election in Georgia’s 6th CD. governor’s activities and that of the An Atlanta Constitution-Journal Poll state party.” taken during the last weekend showed Trump waged an unconven- Democrat Jon Ossoff with a 7% lead, Page 3 but on election night, Republican Karen run an amazingly unconventional cam- Handel won by 5%. “Once again, they were paign. right in Georgia when everybody else was “Absolutely,” Hupfer said. “In the either wrong in reporting what they saw or key targeted states, the RNC was playing were intentionally being misleading,” Hupfer heavy on the data side, moving voters said. “But clearly the folks who are right are in key ways from what we observed in the RNC time and time again.” those last couple of months. If you look, Had the RNC’s data improved by Florida was in a good place two or three quantum leaps between 2012 and 2016? months before the election and obviously “Absolutely,” Hupfer responded. the list you have (Wisconsin, Michigan and “Their accuracy in key targeted races was Pennsylvania) as well. It’s a very targeted almost unbelievable. Their depth on a voter- methodology that is going to continue to by-voter basis is unrivaled. I don’t know how be enhanced.” Hupfer said that the RNC’s much further it can go, but they are certainly IT staff has “already been in three times Indiana Republican Chairman the leader of the pack and are not slow- in Indiana to talk to us, including some Kyle Hupfter. (HPI Photo by Brian ing down from either a data or fundraising heavy training. This 2018 race is a chance A. Howey) standpoint. The RNC continues to outclip the for Indiana to embrace this data across the DNC, I think by $6 million to $7 million last month. What’s board so statewide candidates, caucuses would all move to great about that is on the RNC side, it is increasingly small the RNC data center. This is a chance with all the boots on dollar donors who are supporting the president. I don’t see the ground to take Indiana’s data and just have so much any sign of that slowing down.” more volume of information in-puted so we can have that Hupfer said the data has allowed the Indiana Re- for 2019 and 2020 as well.” publican Party to raise in the past four months more than Hupfer believes that in what HPI has described it did during the 2016 presidential year, much of it coming as the coming $100 million U.S. Senate race, the RNC data from those “small donors” who want to support President shared with Team Holcomb can enhance the eventually Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. U.S. Senate nominee as well as the ticket that will include Essentially, the Priebus-era GOP data foundation Secretary of State Connie Lawson, Treasurer Kelly Mitchell gave the Trump/Pence ticket a bedrock that allowed him to and and Auditor Tera Klutz. v could end right there. Sen. Young, from page 1 For nearly an hour, HPI discussed the On Monday, after the Congressional Budget Office coming health care vote, its impact on hundreds of thou- scoring revaled 22 million Americans could lose coverage sands of Hoosiers, and the prospects for other domestic though it would cut $320 billion in budget priorities of President Trump, including expenses over the next decade, Young tax reform, the debt ceiling vote, and an reacted, saying “The CBO score is one of infrastructure program. This interview is many data points I’ll look at when making presented below. my decision. It has value, but it also has In the next HPI weekly edition, limitations, not the least of which is how we’ll follow up with Sen.
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